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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all heated. The high flow ones just feel cold because they’re evaporating the water faster than it can put heat into your hands. If you hang out an extra 10 seconds with good technique, it’ll be warm.

  Are any perfect? Probably not. I don’t have the patience for them and utilize my pants to finish the job. But, some basic understanding goes a long way.

  1. Drying starts at the sink. Give some good shakes there. You can use your hands to squeegee the other there as well.

  2. Rub your hands in the drier, vigorously and thoroughly. You need to spread the water thin to speed evaporation. Letting it stay pooled in droplets will only lead to the droplets re-wetting the dry parts as soon as they move. It also helps put your wetter parts on your drier parts, further maximizing your wet surface area.

  2a. For the high speed ones, move your hands so it works it’s way from your wrists to your fingertips. This will help fling water off your hands.

  3. I’m still gonna pat dry on my pants because I can’t waste the extra 10 seconds with all that white noise, but it’s a lot less than how it started. I could do a handshake by time I step out. I call it quits when the air doesn’t feel cold anymore.

  Low speed drivers still won’t be worth my time. Again, I promise, I’m wearing pants, and I’ll use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to listen to only the radio topics I actually care about?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is highly regional. I don’t get the down votes. And, asking about radio options, makes it sound like OP wants local info, so it’s probably a regional request. I don’t even get the same radio options at opposing ends of my commute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The NJ MAGAs were big mad that even their donny couldn’t tell them it was “suv-sized drones” all along. And man, the people that saw actual planes, real planes, plain planes, and called them holograms… I ate so much popcorn watching that fiasco unfold. So many grainy videos, so many spooked people livestreaming, so many hobby drones, so many cgi/Ai videos, and the orbs! So many orb videos from people who’ve never focused a camera at night, so many existing conspiriscists finding their place in the limelight. That was a riot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from that one time the Goodyear blimp in NJ took a 5 month break in 2020 and then showed up to the first Giants game and then people filmed the UFO.

  NJ also had a mass panic last year with “drones”. Absolutely a UFO rash by real definitions, not the UFO=alien version. Those people went outside at night and saw distant planes landing for the first time. There’s what, 4 major airports that put descent over the state? I’m sure there were some drones (something about [training for?] lost radioactive material) but it was definitely less than what was reported. Cell phone video was an awful option for aircraft at night but everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooling stuff does not require any energy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d have to look for specific discussions, but I have some examples. The wiki page covers a lot. Spacewalk/moonwalk suits are white to reflect the sun’s heat (the orange suits are for takeoff/landing, a sin, terrestrial recovery). That shiny silver or gold foul appearance of classic space craft from the 60s/70s is for heat reflection. The JWST is on like 4 layers of wafers (they look like a sail) to isolate it from the sun’s heat. Quite visibly in depictions, the scrunched panels on the ISS are actually radiators.

  There’s a misconception about space and heat. It didn’t originate, but I’m Sur eit was propogated by the 00s space movie that had an astronaut pop off their helmet and freeze. Mission to Mars? Red Planet? Space cowboys? Yes, you probably would freeze upon exposure to space, but not because it’s cold. The sudden drop in pressure would vaporized a tremendous amount of water from you. Jus like how sweat works, the evaporative cooling would drop your skin temperature greatly.

  A side topic is that there’s narrow frequency range of radiation that is neither emitted by the sun nor reflected by the atmosphere. It’s in the near if rated range. There’s a NighthawkInLight video that develops a paint that resonates in this “window” to actually cool it below ambient air temperature. There’s always a control piece for science’s sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooling stuff does not require any energy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Atoms are surprisingly bad at removing heat. Being hit with slower atoms and transferring that energy ((like newton’s cradle with mismatched swings opposing each other) transfers energy much, much faster than what happens naturally in the vacuum of space. Most spacecraft have more of issue with overheating than freezing. The rate at which radiation is emitted is very low when you get to sub-human temperatures. There’s also tons of heat sources around us in space, so the last few degrees are so, so hard to shed.

  Keeping a fridge stocked increases the thermal capacity of the coldness. Air falls out quickly and is subject to rapid temperature change when the door is open. Keeping a bunch of solid/sealed masses in there will bank the lack of heat. You’ll likely lose more air and the falling not-so-cool air will impart heat into your 24 pack of beer, but you’ll have a bunch of distirbuted cold objects to re-cool the air once the door is closed instead of relying on air circulation alone. Instead of raising the air temp by, say, 5 degrees once settled, it’ll only go up maybe 2 degrees - much better for food storage. But the fridge will still have to re-cool those beers, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eskew

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my point? My state checks normal cars for OBDII codes and nothing else. One neighboring state does full inspection and fails for rust holes. The other neighbor has no inspection. Saying a street “racer” (which I keep putting in quotes because I’m positive most commenters in this thread aren’t talking about racing) that won’t pass tech shouldn’t be “racing” is acting like the bar is any higher for the average car being driven by someone texting and driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In sea and air, sure. Not as street racers. Not since radios became standard issue for police and even less with much better tracking. Drugs are much more likely to be in a van or gray camry doing the speed limit than a loud exhaust, underglowing, speeding charger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the choice to ride naked will only kill themselves [and traumatize others] if they become a meat crayon. The gear doesn’t change what phtsically happens to others in accidents

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen the average car on the road? There’s plenty of people driving cars in such disrepair they’re just as dangerous as street “racers” that won’t pass tech. I might prefer a speeder with an old drip over a dipshit that ignored the grinding noise and wore brake pads down to the backing plates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly puritanical view. Drug dealers aren’t running like moonshiners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is nothing cheap about track days unless you mean drag racing. And even still, you know most people’s cars won’t pass tech inspection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s so little actual street racing that I’m not convinced OP is actually asking about racing. Speeding, weaving, running lights, playing in traffic, stunting motorcycles, sliding cars, donuts, burnouts, takeovers, launches, pulls, hits, runs, and digs can all be variably reckless events that the gen pop will call “racing”. Donuts/burnouts have plenty of crash videos where they damage property. Mustangs eat crowds, chargers smack stopped cars, infinitis hit other takeover kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Squids have always been gearless riders to me and my circle, not the name for reckless riders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that spacesuits sit right in the middle of⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somewhere in the climax of Revelation Space (book by Alistair Reynolds), he describes the “suit” taking the character from the orbiting ship to the surface as “more of a spaceship with room for precisely one occupant”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should know how to coil cables⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been wrapping headphones in a figure 8 across my devil’s horns, speaker first. The plug end can then be wrapped ~5 times around the crossover and pulled through the loop opposite the one it just came from. It accomplishes the same overall effect of reversing the twist each cycle. It also serves as a neat party trick to show people how they could have had better headphone management =(current year - 2015) years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out the lyrics to “Home” by Corey Taylor, singer of Slipknot (I’m not a fan of the song itself). It’s a romantic-love song, but I think you could find a friend-love meaning in there because it’s about being partners.

  Slipknot makes music for us. They reach out to the loners, the outcasts, those abandoned, those forgotten. I have friends double your age into Slipknot. The lyricism has some extreme imagery and obviously their concert presence is scary, but, at the heart of it, it’s painting a picture of sad feelings, screaming out into the void as if it’s anger. He’s hurt and doesn’t want to hurt others the same way. Yes, the music attracts some aggressive people (not getting into THEIR psych right now), but by and large, the fans are people who felt lonely in their teenage years. Look at the lyrics to Slipknot’s “Danger keep away”. He says “we, too, feel alone”. We! There’s something beautiful to be discovered when 10,000 “loners” step into their concert. Maybe you’re not so alone. Maybe you could reach out better to others. Maybe other people have a totally different inside personality but they’re afraid to show it. They’re struggling inside the same way you are. They want to be accepted. Unfortunately, it’s easier to find common disinterest than interests, so it’s so damn easy to earn social points by joking about the weird interests.

  I made my judgements in school of other people. They judged me. I drifted away because of that, even from the ones I wanted to call “friend”. Over a decade later, I somewhat reconnected with some. Even my ex. Nothing deep, just casual, but comfortable. You don’t know it yet, but you’re not done growing up. You’ll hopefully realize that for all the times you acted immature, your acquaintances did too. They were also young. I’m not saying their personalities will flip or they’ll become your best friend, but most will hopefully look back and laugh a little. I had a roommate fight about sponge etiquette.

  Or maybe you’ll never see them again. That’s fine, shit happens. People move. People get all different jobs. People make new families. If you find yourself dwelling on something you feel you messed up by being awkward or if you’re still angry someone else judged you as uninteresting, try to learn from it. How would you have presented yourself today to improve yourself? Or how would you have presented your interests in a way that’s more amicable to someone entirely unfamiliar? I don’t dive right into talking about nebula composition and orbital mechanics, I pull up some astro pictures I’ve made. I gauge it from there. Would they rather hear more about the camera, the travel, the stars, or are they not interested at all? Switch to cars? Motorcycles? The sci-fi book I’m in? Slipknot? The weather? Nothing? Just because there was no common ground found today doesn’t mean there won’t be in the future.

  There’s a cool side effect with never seeing a former social group again: starting entirely fresh in the next one. They don’t know you were weird last time, so there’s no reason to assume they think you’re weird. You don’t have to be interesting all the time, but work on giving a comfortable vibe. Don’t gatekeeper your taste but don’t dive into a whole thesis either.

  I won’t agree with the other comment about ditching the degree, but absolutely work on social skills while you’re there. This is a good time to shape them. Join clubs or events. You have a good amount of time and you’ll be in a group of people with an amazingly similar demographics. You’ll come across jerks, you’ll be overly weird. Work on it. You might never see them again or they might never think about that interaction again. So don’t worry about it and don’t beat yourself up.

  And then watch Corey Taylor sing the SpongeBob theme song because why the hell not?

  But anyway, really, this will work out. It’ll take time. If you’re comfortable with yourself, people will get comfortable with you. You don’t have to be the center of attention, but you’re saying you wish you had some attention. Use that logical communication brain of yours to figure out where you are, where you want to be, and what to do to merge those two identities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My 2 cents is get a laptop (or desktop) soon. For educational and technical purposes, I believe it’s way more valuable than is perceived. Around 24, my laptop was so slow I never used it. I relied on my android phone as well, believing it to be the same. It wasn’t. The simplified UI, inaccuracy of small touch screens, and small screen drastically reduced the depth of my device usage. I became a Facebook/reddit blob. I can understand the argument that someone 22 today is likely less adapted to the pc UI, equalizing their depth of usage, but I do not accept the inverse, suggesting my older age makes me significantly worse at using a phone. Even just having a full page worth of information at once, providing context for the entire form, is something lost due to readability on phones by zooming in. Spatial relationship is better retained with a large view than sliding around on a phone. Spatial relations improve memory retention as well.

  I’m scatter brained on this explanation because I’ve never written it down before. I just feel for you because your situation isn’t far off from where I was at that time.

  I’m finally back into creating art. Even though I’m in a highly technical field, I can’t turn off the creativity. I got back into doodling, back into imagining creations, back into viewing art. There’s no way I could make a career out of it though and I probably wouldn’t want to. I’d hate it soon. But, while I do believe I have a good job now, I’m only here to get paid. But at least now I’m at a point where I can find the emotional energy to be freeform in my own time. Money has leveled out, housing has stabilized, and probably most importantly, I got “more” of a social circle simply by removing all the asterisks I was tacking onto each relationship. Work buddy? Friend. Childhood friend? Friend. Hobby friend? Friend. Friend of a friend? Friend. Limited shared activity friend? Friend. Online-only hobby friend? Well, turns out, I traveled that way and they welcomed me into their home. What do you know, friend.

  Fuck. Where am I even going? Other people are giving you technical advice but I read your post as someone stuck in their feelings rather than in their logic. I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preppers helped fulfill their own prophecy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well peppers also fulfilled their own prophecy. The theory I like on their evolutionary traits (being spicy) is that they had generally low seed dispersion rate through animal ingestion. Upon the development of capsacin, leg-based mammals avoided the pain from the spicy. Birds do not have receptors in their mouths that react to that (side note, capsacin is not actually harmful and doesn’t injure your mouth. It just tricks your heat receptors.). So with much greater mobility, birds carried the seeds much further than mammals. Pretty good for a plant to get around, right?

  Well, not as good as humans getting addicted to the stuff and spreading the plants across the entire planet. Actually, further. Astronauts have a bit of a desire for additional spice because food flavors are dulled up there. So the animal group the plants wanted to avoid became their greatest proponent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never underestimate the willingness of a corporation to create pre-destined garbage to save money. Literally whatever the cheapest option is. Ford produced the US gen 1 Transit Connect van in Turkey. To avoid the “chicken tax” that applies to light trucks (see: original subaru baja with pickup bed seats), they shipped it with a shitty 2nd row seat and cargo doors with windows. It was classed as a passenger vehicle. Upon receipt, Ford swapped the doors for solid as needed and discarded the 2nd row.

  Making garbage was cheaper than the tax. Without additional regulation, have no doubt these companies will try to make an assembly line that feeds right into a landfill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you been in a desert at night? It gets cold, fast. Have you ever dug a few inches down into sand and touched it? It’s much colder than the blazing surface in the summer. Deserts to not typically have dirt, they have sand. Black panels shading a typically black roof will of course decouple the heating from the building. Black panels shading a very pale, very reflective, very insulative ground material is going to absorb and retain more heat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This week marks 10 years with my Xbox One Forza Motorsport 6 edition. I was thinking that’s a good mile marker to admit it’s struggling under modern games and upgrade to a disc XSX. Guess I won’t expect any cool discounts this holiday. Probably just discounted to the prior price.

  I really like the blue console/controller with racing stripes and car sounds, so it’s a shame they haven’t matched that. Part of the reason I didn’t want to replace it yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, it’s tooting his own cohort’s horn without acknowledging he is, inf act, susceptible to marketing. The actual topic at hand is marketing for software tools to software devs. Of course hand-waving marketing doesn’t work, it’s a technical field with technical products. The marketing he’s blasting is emotion-based marketing. Guess what, there’s plenty of other emotional decisions that will be affected by marketing in his life. Vacation destinations, artistic exhibitions, restaraunts, games, whatever. This article screams like it’s from someone who loudly proclaims marketing is dumb because they weren’t swayed to by women’s deodorant because of a YouTube ad.

  You are not immune to marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is in for the antivax in a government?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The right wing voters already believe OSHA is just an obstruction tog getting the job done. OSHA is the reason your climbing harness has interlocking double carabiners. Else, your job would only pay for one carabiner. Maybe.

  OSHA rules aren’t here to treat your job like a daycare. The rules are here because employers will fuck over their employees as close to the letter of the law as they can. No laws, no holding back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a true sim, but Ace Combat 7 novice controls are non-inverted. I feel like Far Cry 5/6 and definitely Fortnite put the non-inverted pitch control on the planes, which were not the focus of the game. I assumed other plane-including games did the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called linux phone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, I fell out of the android/pixel communities when I left reddit. I don’t know what’s popular, either. I’d guess Lemmy generally agrees with me, but we’re not the general population. I just want my piece of informational technology to keep it simple to get information. New functions are cool, power-thirsty UI animations and changes to familiar UI elements every 3 months is not (imo)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For decades, we’ve had a question live as a meme of misunderstanding and yet, it’s exactly the question this committee should be asking now instead: “who is 4chan?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called linux phone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  droid-life.com/…/android-16-teases-secret-ui-upda…

  Pixel, specifically. My 7 is what just updated. Blur through drawers. At this point, I can’t remember if my app icons were already circles, but now I’m looking at them now again and still hate them. Sliders now have detached bar indicators. Cartoonish status icons. It’s another step into iPhone styling to, I guess, tackle a market demo that thinks the phone market is Samsung vs iphone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called linux phone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure it’s not getting better? This morning, my Pixel updated to take away all my corners again. It’s been what, 4 years since they last made everything rounded and bubbly? My wifi bar and cellular bar are now different stacks of noodles. Improvements nobody knew they needed.